Tuesday, July 29, 2008

I'm still deep in leavingonvacationnotatallreadyyet hell so I thought this would be a good time to pull out this photo I shot a few weeks ago and hop on the Ruby Tuesday bandwagon. It's been sitting in my photo file just waiting for the right opportunity to shine. I love it's shiny retro feel and the upward looking angle of the shot.

As a bonus for my regular readers, in the background is the infamous green cruet of spilled olive oil fame, which, together with the red cruet behind it coordinated so beautifully with my dishes. Luckily I just got a call this morning that the housewares store down the road has managed to find me a replacement. Now I just need to find the time to go get it.

Interesting little composition. Is that a red onion on the left? And two other red things, too. That little bag looks interesting.

I have a Kitchen Aid. It never worked properly. Unfortunately, I bought when my daughter was born, and that was a crazy, crazy year, so I didn't call Kitchen Aid until the year was up, and the closest Kitchen Aid person was in Trenton, and I would have to pay a lot to fix it. So now I have to hold it when I use it.

Next time I decide to buy one of those, I think it's gonna be a Bosch.

What a shame Leora, we LOVE ours. Even after it fell off the counter while running at an extremely high speed (lesson: never ever knead dough unattended) and something came loose inside it still works beautifully, just rattles a bit at very high speeds.

The onion is in fact a red onion, in a red bowl from Morocco (notice a theme here LOL?) and the bag is a roughly woven bag that holds my clothespins. I picked it up in Egypt or somewhere ages ago. It shouldn't be out on the counter though.

hey haven't chatted in a while I hope you are well other that the stress of getting ready to de-stress on vacation. I Love the Red Kitchen Aid and happy you found a replacement that green is so great w/ the red--- Have a nice break

I definitely like the green cruet for color contrast against the reds and neutrals. I also like the zigzaggy stairs and the three hanging lamps in the background - gives the shot a wonderful sense of perspective.

I asked, and they said yes :). I think they must sell them separately too, otherwise I can't imagine they'd have agreed, even if I do end up depositing my paycheck directly into their bank account most months (it's an awesome gourmet store too).

I spotted that big red onion, too. I'm afraid the mixer in my kitchen isn't nearly so glamorous as yours. If I had one like that I'd leave it out on the counter, just to show off. My dowdy, boring white one gets to stay inside the cupboard.

Mine does stay out on the counter, but more because we use it every day and it's too darn heavy to keep shlepping in and out than because it looks good. (It does look good though, doesn't it. My husband wanted blue! Thankfully he lost that debate.)

I have a parade on my WW (Little Photo Place) today, 13 of us bloggers from different places n the U.S. assembled in that town for Blogstock '08. We build our float and entered the parade as one project. (It is on my 'Little Photo Place' blog.)..

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